Well, it's been a long cool summer here, with frequent cloudy days and surprise rain showers. That has led to a late planting window, followed by an invasion of slugs like I have never seen before. Every year I learn something new about gardening, and I think this year I learned to just relax and let it go, because whatever is going to happen is going to happen, and there's only so much you can do when you're fighting mother nature!
In the background you can see the neighbor's humongous shop, still in progress! This view shows the stuff that's doing most of the growing this year. Big healthy cucumber plants, and tomato plants, and some good sized herbs and onions.
This row is mostly onions and leeks, and a couple broccoli plants hanging in there. Mostly invasive grass and weeds I've been fighting all summer.
Big squash plant, but I'm having a hard time getting any squash off it because the slugs start munching on them before they are ready. I need to get out there and prune it back. In front you can see my very yellow parsley plant. I was puzzled, because just last week I went out and clipped some parsley off it for dinner, and I was really happy with how it looked. Looking closer, I see there are holes under it and some critter has clearly burrowed under it and killed it! Give me a break!
This row has two pickling cucumber plants, and a volunteer chives in the very front. I found a lot of cucumbers under those leaves, but I'll save that for another post.
I stepped past the next two rows to shoot them from the other side, because those are my 7 tomato plants. They are pretty large, and seem to be growing fine, but they are loaded with green tomatoes. No telling if they'll turn red (or yellow), but we'll wait and see. I have a feeling I'll be canning green tomato salsa again this year.
The only tomatoes turning ripe are these black cherry tomatoes, and only a few of them.
Although this isn't garden, it's my pasture, and it looks beautiful. We had a neighbor come spray it with WeedMaster this year to kill the invasive weeds, and it looks like it did the trick. Dave mowed it last week and found more grass growing where there used to be lots of weeds. They aren't gone, but their numbers are down!
The hill looks really good. It usually is very scrubby and covered with daisy, but it looks very grassy now.
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